According to the most upscale shopping in Beijing at the iPhone center of mobile with a certificate of release ceremony, a think-tank in mainland China's first offer iPhone buyers.
After two years of waiting, the Apple Apple (the) smartphone finally has sold nearly 7 million users, the world's largest mobile communications market formally started selling. To commemorate the event, the country's second largest mobile operators, China Unicom (China Unicom) held a night celebrations.
However, if the wisdom of the sacrifice slightly smiling face the camera, it is a very rigid good reason. He is not the main iPhone in China.
Since this smartphone in 2007, has more than 200 million Chinese people from Hong Kong and other places, and bring into the iPhone in this period, this device has been waiting for the green light.
China unicom, according to its three agreements with apple, expected sales 500 million iPhone. But this may be a difficult to achieve goals. According to China's biggest Internet news portal, sina.com (Sina) recently conducted a survey in seven thousand, reply, more than 90% of the iPhone that unicom priced. Only 11.7% said he considered buying.
Sale situation appears to confirm the ceremony. For customers in mobile phone and enthusiastically lining up to buy the isolation, only large field gathered the bustling about 80 people.
According to China unicom's pricing, if only buy mobile phones, don't sign the contract price and service in the iPhone 6000 to 8,000 yuan ($8.8 to 11.7), depending on the specific model between the price, and so on other than Chinese market smartphone, the average price of RMB ￥2250 twice more than "gray market, also on the" mobile 3700 to give 5,700 yuan price expensive.
Even when buying signing China unicom 3G services two contracts, the operator still appear expensive, the iPhone because many international counterparts, China unicom to give the buyer provide subsidies to buy fewer.